Vlajko Stojiljković
Vlajko Stojiljković (* 1937 in Mala Krsna , Smederevo , Serbia , † April 13, 2002 in Belgrade by suicide ) was a Serbian politician .
biography
Stojiljković studied law at the University of Belgrade. He later worked as a functionary in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) and in 1991 was the last chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in the SFRY. From 1991 to 1997 he was chairman of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce .
On April 15, 1997 he became Minister of the Interior of Serbia after the previous incumbent Zoran Sokolović became Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on March 20, 1997 and the incumbent Minister of the Interior Radovan Stojičić Badza was assassinated on April 11, 1997. He was one of the members of the so-called "Požarevac gang", a group of politicians who came from or lived in the birthplace of the then Serbian President Slobodan Milošević . As a loyal supporter of Milošević, he was little more than a puppet of the president at the head of the police . On October 11, 2000, he resigned from his position as Minister of the Interior.
Stojiljković was charged with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes during the Yugoslav wars, particularly in Kosovo . He expressed this repeatedly that he is not alive to The Hague would go and shot himself on 11 April 2002 by a shot in the head in front of the federal parliament in Belgrade, a few hours before the delivery of war criminals UN war crimes tribunal rejected on that.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stojiljković, Vlajko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mala Krsna , Smederevo , Serbia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 2002 |
| Place of death | Belgrade |